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THORNBURY, Gloucestershire

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Emigration and Immigration Gazetteers History Nobility Probate Records Schools

Archives and Libraries

Guide to Research Sources for the parish of St Mary, Thornbury

Thornbury Museum - as well as describing the Museum's holdings, this site has a brief account of Thornbury, The Town - "The Historic Borough and Town of Thornbury".

Cemeteries

• Comprehensive transcriptions of MIs in Thornbury are available on the Thornbury Roots website. Added 3 Jul 2006.

• Some Memorial Inscriptions in St Mary the Virgin Churchyard and Kington Cemetery, Thornbury collected and transcribed by Alf Beard.

Census

• Gloucestershire - Census Returns 1841-1901 - all you ever wanted to know about the Census.

Church History

• Photographs of St Mary the Virgin's Church; St Paul's Church, The Hackett; Methodist Church, High Street; Baptist Church, Morton; and Baptist Chapel are available in our Thornbury Photo Gallery, provided by Alf Beard, and Rosemary Lockie. Photo of Millbury Heath Chapel added 29 Oct 2005.

Church Records

• A transcription of Thornbury Marriages missing from Phillimore's Gloucestershire Vol. XV is available from the Bristol & Avon Family History Society website - see their section on 'Downloads'. Added 8 Feb 2008.

• Scribes Alcove - a site to enable searches of baptism, marriage and burial indexes from six Gloucestershire parishes: Berkeley, Thornbury, Oldbury-upon-Severn, Hill, Stone & Rockhampton.
  The period covered for St Mary the Virgin's Church is 1737-1881C; 1700-1900M (except 1719-1728); 1700-1900B.

• Snippet from the parish register:
  "NB On Saturday March the Eleventh 1780, Bread was brought from Iron Acton to Thornbury, and sold at the following Rate: viz. Best Wheaten, Twelve pounds weight for one shilling, Best Household Whⁿ, Fourteen (pounds) for one shilling. At w^ch time Bread was made and sold in Thornbury, at much lesser weight, at the same price." - ex. RRL, 1988.

Description and Travel

• Images of Thornbury. Added 17 Apr 2006.

Directories

• Transcription of section of Pigot's Directory of Gloucestershire, 1830 for Tetbury, Tewkesbury & Thornbury, by Ted Wildy.

Emigration and Immigration

• The Berkeley Castle Poaching Affray of 1816 - an account of the 'forced' emigration of some young men from the Thornbury district! Added 20 May 2005.

Gazetteers

• The transcription of the section for Thornbury from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

History

• Thornbury Local History - information about Societies, &c. and a nice collection of Maps. Added 5 May 2007.

Nobility

• Information about Thornbury Castle is available as part of the Camelot International site featuring Castles and Historic Houses. Thornbury Castle is now a hotel.

Probate Records

• Abstracts of Rockhampton, Thornbury & Oldbury on Severn WILLS 1541 - 1567, 1568 - 1576 and 1577 - 1599;
  and of Thornbury & Oldbury on Severn WILLS 1600 - 1614, 1615 - 1624, 1625 - 1635 and 1636 - 1650, transcribed by Leslie Mahler.

Schools

• Thornbury Grammar School - self-styled site for Old Thornburians' nostalgia!

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